Noah's Ark

From the Author Correcting the Critics The critics' remarks (such as the Bible writers being "goatherders", and the Flood account being "a campfire story") not only display their prejudices, but also speak volumes about their abysmal ignorance about this whole subject.

The rapid origin of new species (in thousands of years or less) is not speculation but demonstrated fact, and is not at all a concession to evolution. The notion about me having Noah standing behind buckets while horses urinate, or post-Flood animals needing to dig out corpses, are nothing more than ridiculous misrepresentations of what I actually wrote. These are also nothing more than false rumors about my book that have been going around for some time, and their appearance in the negative reviews also makes it doubtful if the critics have even bothered to read my book. It is not I, but the critics, who are indulging in fantasy.

Statements about the Ark account violating Occam's razor sound very intellectual, but are widely off the mark. In fact, throughout my work, I have scrupulously avoided speculative scenarios, ad hoc processes, and weakly-supported conjectures. All of the solutions to the putative problems with the Ark account in this book are based on a solid study of low-tech animal-keeping techniques, low-tech husbandry, etc. Moreover, far from being fantastic, speculative, or even theoretical, the techniques and solutions that I cite in this book have been APPLIED by various uneducated, pre-industrial peoples throughout history. Much of the contents of my book discusses and documents this central fact. Finally, I demonstrate in my book that there are often SEVERAL low-tech solutions to putative problems with the Ark, and only one of these solutions will do.

It is obvious that the critics have not even remotely come to grips with the data presented in this book.

A scholarly but fascinating treatment that is thoroughly documented. -- Bible-Science News, November 1996

It has just the sort of facts and details that kids find fascinating...be advised to read NOAH'S ARK. -- Reason and Revelation, May 1996

The book...seeks to answer the more mundane questions of Noah's voyage... -- Natural History, October 1997

These critics often resort to ridicule...Woodmorappe, however, invariably finds credible evidence which rather causes the critics to appear foolish. -- Creation Research Society Quarterly, March 1998

Using a database and a Bible, the book posits a mechanical answer to any question one could imagine regarding Noah's logistics... -- Harper's Magazine, November 1996